On Tuesday the casual labourers united front held a peaceful demonstration in Anantnag under the leadership of president Imran Ahmad Parray.
The labourers, according to a press release issued to The Kashmiriyat demanded immediate regularization of their services.
They said that during the protest demonstration all the covid SOP’s were followed by maintaining social distance and wearing masks, after which scores of labourers submitted a memorandum to deputy commissioner Anantnag for regularization of their services before fresh requirement policy.
The protestors demanded that if till then the services are not regularized, they will be bound to hold massive protests on the roads.
The workers in the Departments of FIF, ITT, KPCC, Horticulture, Sericulture, Tourism, Agriculture, Forest Department, Gulmarg Department Authority, Estates, Education, Health, HDF Workers. Urban Local, Sahli Karamchancs, Seasonal Labours, Command Area, Agrostology, Forest, Wildlife Protection Department, Kokemag Development Authority, Pahalgam Development Authority, Mechanical agricultural, Verinag Development Authority staging the protest said that they have been continuously appealing the Government for their regularization and releasing of withheld wages and continue monthly wages but in return, the authorities at the helm of affairs continued to cause a delay in delivery of justice.
“They have been constituting committees with no desirable results. Under these compelling circumstances, many of casual labours lost their lives while working and some due to non-payment of their monthly wages,” Imran Ahmed Parray said.
Now, the J&K administration is likely to recruit about 50,000 employees in different categories including 10,000 in Class-IV grade by direct recruitment order en 04. 06-2020 and as such the workers, who are already’ at the verge of overage and have already spent most of the pruning time of their life in public service are required to work as a fresher with a highly supplicated test to be conducted for recruitment, the union said.